WTF is this? Writers on AO3 can do better.

I don't understand how can Alan still be called a superhero now. He wields so much power that can overturn every regime of this planet. He can and ought to protect his kind, fight for them. That's what a hero does. That's what the old Alan would do. Yet he used it to run away from the police when he was seeing a prostitute. Alan used to be a tough guy, an old class hero. I don't appreciate why they want to turn him into a pathetic hypocrite.

Trash.

I can't agree with Snyder's view on Batman. This is a book full of edgy stuff but lack of true sentiment. Also Snyder's obsession with Batman and the Joker being friends is so weird.

The series was originally planned with Hal Jordan being the Emerald Knight, but for some obvious reason it was changed. Now we can see this character called John Stewart based in Hal's Coast City, developing a relationship with Hal's villain, Sinestro. Really this is the dumbest way to push a character -- write a story for Hal Jordan and rename him John Stewart.

LOL This is the most hilarious issue I’ve ever read in years. So while in Superman’s tie-in he dreams that he could spend time with his son, John Stewart wants a world without anyone better than him, like the Trinity, and Hal Jordan. Thus he will be praised as the greatest hero the world’s ever seen, by his mother. What does the writer want to say? John Stewart is such a man of vanity? Or it’s just another case of crazy fanboyism, like Geoff Thorne? Anyway it suits him well.

Nothing but pretentious stunts. Lex Luthor who laughs with a GL ring is insultingly stupid.

Robin King is one of the most insulting garbage characters ever made.

What the hell? The greatest Green Lantern can’t use the ring in this book? You use Hal’s content like Ferris company and his classic look to find a way to stuff John Stewart in this story, and you killed Hal? Disappointment. No wonder this book sells like shit.

I hope this book won't get a sequel.

Alan caused the train crash that killed a lot of people because the conductor was busy having sex with him and wasn't doing his job. How is this respecting gay people?

Tim and Steph deserve better

"He contacted HR and said he'd sue for discrimination against white men." This really happened in a comic book, right? As a GL fan, to see someone writing a Green Lantern story like this is embarrassing, almost painful. Please change another book to express your hate. Leave this title to aliens, space, Sci-Fi. To Kmld6805: Like, accusing the HR of discrimination against white men and not getting mocked? You certainly have a special definition of "real". LOL

Boring, clumsy, messy. Geoff Throne, an untalented hater who nontheless gets to write Green Lantern because of DC's lousy management. What do you expect?

WTF this is literarily a piece of shit

Funny to see Thorne badmouth Geoff Johns while using his creations in this book.

Tiresome. A guardian got killed. The central battery got blown up. All old cliches.

The art is ugly and the story is disgusting.

I know perhaps nobody cares about Sinestro except me but I'm a huge fan of this character. Sinestro having a threesome is totally out of character. He is not that kind of villains who indulge in sex. Instead, he is a tyrant who addicts himself to power, to authority. Making him randomly have sex just falls to a new low. Obviously Thorne knows nothing about the GL franchise. He knows nothing about Sinestro either. I don't know why he insists on writing Hal Jordan's archenemy since everyone knows he loathes Hal. Perhaps because John Stewart is so bland that he doesn't have his own villain so he has to steal from Hal. Or perhaps Thorne just wants to ruin Hal's villain since his writing is sooooooo bad. Beyond that, Teen Lantern taking down Sinestro's elites is one of the most ridiculous scene I've read in GL comics in years. And Thorne is even ripping off Hal's story in Future States written by Robert Venditti, which is already a bad enough story.

The most boring issue so far.

Boring

I literally fell asleep when I read this issue. God this is so boring. The first half part is nothing but Thorne trying so hard to canonize John Stewart. The second half part is Jo watching a PowerPoint presentation. And why are all aliens speaking English? So stupid.

Just dull. Boring characters. Boring stories.

Tiresome. Uninteresting. Did the Katma-Tui plot come directly from fanboy's message board? I

What a farce. This issue literally shows that the only way to make John Stewart shine is neutering and undermining Hal Jordan, which obvioudly is what Thorne's always wanted to do.

A series with no originality at all. All plots are dull. All the things Geoff Thorne does to John Stewart happened before on other lanterns. He is just trying to steal Hal/Kyle's achievements and thinks that would make John Stewart a great character instead of a pathetic copycat. And just thinking about Thorne really think dragging Jack Kirby into this issue can make his poor book work.

Just stop this bullshit. Sinestro dispises Kyle Ranyer because he considers Kyle an unworthy Green Lantern. Why would he have an eye for Jessica, the most unworthy earth lantern of all? And Hal's always been an empathetic person. He mentored Jessica when she joined the league. They have a close relationship like brother and sister. The writer is just dwarfing Hal to push Jessica, shamefully . It's sad to come to know, in these days, Hal Jordan, or his archenemy, is just a plot tool to push those secondary lanterns. And it's really a weird and stupid business strategy since Hal is still DC's most popular Green Lantern.

The shamelessness of the writer astonished me. How in hell does he have the cheek to write his damned grandma stealing Hal Jordan’s identity. Disgusting thief.

I'm saying this as an Asian. The writer has no respect to the Green Lantern lore and clasic characters. He just uses the Green Lantern franchise as a shortcut to fulfill his self-insert. The story is not about Green Lantern. It doesn't have to be a Green Lantern story either. I hope the writer knows that replacing the classic character with your creation is not going to make fans happy. I hope DC knows how to manage and protect their franchises and characters. Because this book does more damage than contribution. John Stewart's mentor is not your grandma. It's Katma Tui, his love of life. Coast City's Green Lantern and Sinestro's archenemy is not your grandma. It's Hal Jordan, the greatest Green Lantern. This story reads like a 12-year old boy's Mary Sue fanfiction. Annoying and disgusting.

epically gross

Making Alan Scott a gay who cheated two women into marriage is beyond disgusting.🤢 This is a superscum, not a superhero. All I can see is the misogyny of the writer.

Basically Geoff Thorne writing his fanboyish wet dreams inspired from CBR message board lol

If you are inept to write an epic story, don't do it. If you are inept to write a character, don't do it. Don't let characters be the victims to your ambitions. All I can see is failed story-telling and mistreated characters.

Just like everything Snyder writes, this run ends with nothing. For a worthless, meaningless story, it lasts too long. Perpetua is a boring, annoying, outdated villain and that makes the JL even dumber. I may be wrong but is Snyder whining about editorial decisions in the story? That's pretty unprofessional and narrow-minded I think since the story is JUST BAD.

A waste of time.

Horribly written

I'm sorry Geoff. You screwed Alan up.

I hate the idea of Sinestro’s son, no matter he is his true son or not. Tomasi, just stop this farce. Write your overflowing paternal love for Ghost Machine or something. Stop messing up DC’s characters.

I hate the idea of Sinestro’s son. Tomasi really left a bad load of shit before moving on ghost machine. Tomasi is clearly putting in a lot of effort to portray the children as adorable, but they come across as annoying instead.

Can I give a score below zero?

Fire Geoff Thorne

This is so bad... It really has nothing to do with Green Lantern or Jessica Cruz. Why would the writer choose to make the story based in Coast City? Jessica is from Portland and Coast City is Hal Jordan's City.

Well John Stewart is a thief indeed. First he replaced Hal in Crime Syndicate, then he stole Hal’s villains, Sinestro and Black Hand. Does he have anything belong to himself?

Well, at least it worths a laugh.

Disappointing. 1. Hal is portrayed like a fool and out of character. I know Jeremy wants to introduce the situation to readers through the dialogues between Hal and Jo, but don’t you have a better way to do this? Where’s Hal’s questioning spirit? His problems with the authority? His sharp instincts? His leading qualities? 2. This book is bloated with earth humans. We finally made it into the space yet all we can see are still earth humans. This is soooooo boring. Hey, Jeremy, we haven’t seen Salaak for a while, would you mind giving him a line? I’m sure he is the veteran here instead of Jessica Cruz, Simon Baz or Jo Mullein. 3. Hal saves the day in this issue because he got a ring from his friend Tom. So why is he the greatest Green Lantern? What’s so special about him? He is the protagonist of the book after all. We are supposed to expect something exciting or extraordinary from him.. 4. I genuinely think Keli should be never mentioned again. This character is an abomination. As I can see, Jeremy Adams is now making the same mistake as Robert Venditti did in his repulsive run.

I have high expectations for this book but it just keeps disappointing me. I’m sorry. Since the more we buy, the less Hal we get, I don’t see the point of supporting this book anymore.

We don't buy a Shazam book to see Batman being sucked. The writer treat Billy as a robin instead of an independent teen hero.

I’m just tired of Hal Jordan being killed off over and over again in every book to serve John Stewart. I might have loved the story if Mark Russell didn’t do this.

Although I enjoyed Hal's scene in this issue, a glaring issue with the current run has become too significant to overlook: Hal appears on merely a quarter of the pages. It frustrated me and keeps frustrating me that we only get one book of Hal per month, ONE BOOK, yet it is not entirely focused on Hal. Meanwhile the other Green Lantern book, War Journal, is completely dedicated to John Stewart. Buying Hal's book, I am compelled to tolerate Jo Mullein, Jessica Cruz, Kyle Rayner, the fxxking stupid Teen Lantern, and now JSA, whose storylines do not contribute to the protagonist of the book. These characters have become a hindrance in my reading experience. And the sorrow lantern is just a bad idea. The continual arrival of new lanterns has become redundant and exhausting. Come on, It's a big universe, with countless things to explore. It's better to leave the emotional spectrum alone before it become repetitive and draining. Additionally, Adams may need to reconsider: does he truly wish to make a man sharing the same surname as Hal's co-creator a villain? I rate this issue a 2.5 as it is a quarter of the total 10.

Terrible characteristics and poor lines as usual. Venditti is pushing his favourite character John Stewart in this issue by the only way he know -- making others look bad. As to Sodam Yat, kind of surprised to see even not writing Green Lantern anymore, Venditti continues to ruin everything Geoff Johns built in his epic Green Lantern run.

The writing is not bad but this is not Alan Scott. How can you explain Molly and Alan's children?

No more crappy political metaphors please.

Well I hope the thing about Sinestro’s son will turn out to be just a fake because this is just a complete disservice to Sinestro’s character, for the sake of the super sons, two characters that has nothing to do with Green Lantern. I’m sorry Tomasi, who’s made great contributions to the GL franchise, write this.

Did adams know Hal is supposed to be the protagonist of the book? 3 points for Sinestro. Rest is abomination.

John Stewart's best plan is to let Barry distract enemies while others cheer for him. Well this is the best Venditti can do.

Boring and mediocre.

Boring as hell.

Adams tried to explain why there are so many redundant earth lanterns. But this issue still failed to convince me of their validity. IMO they don't need to be legitimized. They need to be pruned. And the Jessica Cruz backup story is so stupid. Thaaros just swallowed her clumsy lies and tricks like an idiot? That’s the big bad the corps are dealing with? Is this story written for infants? Plus, too many earth lanterns are so boring. It would be much better if the one who rescued Hal is Arisia, Trilla-Tru, or Iolande, instead of Jo who nobody cares about.

Not good enough for a commemorative issue. Even worse compare with AC1000 and DC1000.

I honestly don’t know what’s the meaning of all this. Well, at least it has some fun moments.

Hi mark I would appreciate it if you don’t let Hal be mind controlled everytime he appears.

mediocre

I don’t like how Williamson handled Merlyn. He’s making him the reverse flash of green arrow.

For God's sake will writers of DC stop making new earth lanterns and new lantern corps?

Boring.

I expect this issue a touching one. But how the writers handle it is too... clumsy. How could it be possible that Alfred wanted to tell Bruce "your parents' death made you Batman so they would've die willingly for you to save people"? Seriously, Alfred's death and how families react deserves better writing.

Issue 4 now and Geoff still hasn’t given us a reason to care for these characters. I appreciate his efforts to clear up the timeline. But I prefer a good story better.

As a Chinese, everything in this arc about ancient China is so embarassing.

Art is good. Rest is bad.

Feel like I'm reading Tom Taylor's fanfiction.

I have to say this issue gives us the most boring fight between Sinestro and Hal since Silver Age. Yeah the art is good and the action scene is exciting. But the dialogues are just rough. I think Adams is a great writer as he is very good at telling stories, but the problem is, he hasn't understood Hal that well. Nor has he understood the relationship between Hal and Sinestro and what makes it unique. If they fight, I want to see how their past haunts them, how their visions conflict with each other. However, all I can see is Sinestro suddenly snapped and Hal kept saying "Sinestro stop being mad!" What's the difference here if we just change Sinestro into another random villain. I hope Adams prepared something else in next issues. Or this is just disappointing.

Happy to see Hal’s back. Hope this situation remains. Jon’s new league lineup caught my attention. It’s more interesting than just a cheap POC version of the original league.

Is this supposed to be exciting?

Vampire Hal carries the book. However I do hope the writers will give us a logical explanation for what he's done in the next issues.

Surprisingly not so bad.

It's nice to see some HalCarol stuff but I can't help but ask, has Jeremy Adams ever thought about it, what's so great about Hal when he leads his teammates to a wrong way and relies on his girlfriend to be saved?

The story is compelling but I can't say I like it.

I still like Geoff Johns' wrting but I'm confused why should I care for these new sidekicks.

An engaging and entertaining issue. Makes me wonder what's going to happen next.

I don’t like Hal being portrayed too pushy. He was never that kind of person and never behaved like that in his relationship with Carol. He was never possessive or aggressive to Carol. He always wanted the best for her whether she’s with him or not. I still would like to give this book a chance to see if Hal’s depiction will be better in next issues.

Sounds promising

Not as good as previous issues but still better than Bendis’ run.

Very promising

For Brutalia.

Another great issue, we really can see unlimited potentials and wonders Hal Jordan as a character stands for. Only the pace and the dialogues are a bit more off than usual.

Definitely a brilliant isuue. However, I have to say the villian turned out to be Hector Hammond is a bit... disappointing. And some content (Vietnam Lantern, Teen Lantern, etc...) echoes the recent shitty strategies of DC is rather disturbing.

I really love the interaction between Hal and Sinestro in this issue. Also the backup story is shit. Just stop it, Tomasi. Nobody likes your cheap copy of supersons.

Enjoy it.

Pleasure reading

Amazing

A great book with fascinating art. I'd love to see more Geoff's touch though.

Best Batman story I've read in years.

The only good Death Metal book.

A love letter to Superman, to the DC universe. Geoff Johns fixed everything.

Very promising. I wish you all the best, Geoff.

A substantial,imaginative, dreamful issue. We can see Morrison really planned a lot for this run. Shamefully those might not come true for this book has to end sooner than scheduled. The dream team of Morrison and Sharp shouldn't be treated like that. Damn you DC for reducting your best run at present.

A sad and beautiful love story.

I really love the imaginary matriarchal society of earth 11 in this issue.

Incredible.

A perfect example of how to write superhero comics.

Perfect. Morrison really gets the essential qualities of Hal Jordan.

I'm 100% sure Geoff was thinking of Hal Jordan when he wrote Rook.